Volume 2. John D. MacDonald -- Ross Macdonald -- Helen MacInnes -- Barry Maitland -- Clarence Major -- Margaret Maron -- Ngaio Marsh -- Ed McBain -- Charles McCarry -- Sharyn McCrumb -- Val McDermid -- Ralph McInerny -- Denise Mina -- David Morrell -- John Mortimer -- Walter Mosley -- Michael Nava -- Barbara Ann Neely -- Carol O'Connell -- Louis Owens -- Abigail Padgett -- Sara Paretsky -- Robert B. Parker -- T. Jefferson Parker -- Iain Pears -- George P. Pelecanos -- Anne Perry -- Elizabeth Peters -- Ellis Peters -- Gary Phillips -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Bill Pronzini -- Manuel Puig -- Ellery Queen -- Ronald B. Querry -- Ian Rankin -- Lev Raphael -- Kathy Reichs -- Ruth Rendell -- Phil Rickman -- Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Peter Robinson -- James Sallis -- Dorothy L. Sayers -- Steven Saylor -- Sandra Scoppettone -- Georges Simenon -- Alexander McCall Smith -- Martin Cruz Smith -- Mickey Spillane -- Dana Stabenow -- Rex Stout -- Josephine Tey -- Scott Turrow -- Robert H. van Gulik -- Minette Walters -- Joseph Wambaugh -- Valerie Wilson Wesley -- Appendixes. 1. Past and present mystery and detective fiction ; 2. Crime fiction settings and situations ; 3. Resources ; 4. Author birth and death data -- Indexes: Author place of birth index ; Author year of birth index ; Categorized index of authors ; Character index ; Subject index.